Legal translation

Legal translation is non-literary specialised translation which is both a cross-linguistic and legal operation. It facilitates legal communication for normative, judicial, informative and other purposes in multilingual societies and the globalized world. This chapter gives an overview of the scope and types of legal translation, typical challenges faced by legal translators, legal translation methods and tools. It also discusses legal translation as an area of professional practice with legal translator profiles in the private and public sector. The final section discusses avenues and methods of research into legal translation.